CHILDREN’S HEALTH

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1808, 14 July 1906, Page 3

CHILDREN’S HEALTH

(Per Ptto. Association.) DuneJ.vo, last Digbt. Dr. Mason, Chief Heo'th' Offioer, addressed the Educational losihtuio to-day on the quistion of the medios*' examira tion of school obildrm. Tbo , eoheme whioh he warned the Institute lo consider was one wbioh roiiod mainly on teoobera. He bad oome »o the oono'u=iori tbnt ( to tween 15 and 20 per cent. of the children attending ordinary robools bat somttbinij the matter with them, and be suggested that teaohers would bo able to mark tjff rearly all ailing children. Eduoatiom .Jbarjls should joio hands with the oentr/,1 authority, and appoint a qualified medical mtn to look over the list so marked off by teaohers. Ado her scheme was that if Eiucition Boards and the central an'h'j nty paid JE2SO each they would bo able to obtain the whole-time service of nu oxpeit wbo could travel through tbe oouotry Bnd medically examine thesobool children. The difficulty about this eoheme Was the txpeDse, as navo ling expenses would probably bo more than the sa'aty. The iuspeoiion offioer would fill up a end whtre a child was deb olive, ind cat og what ba thought was the m-nter. The Card would be rent to tbe parents, wbo should bo at liberty to take the child any Where for treatment. Is was resolved to spptovo of the schemo proposed by Dr. Mason, and tbe Institate undertook to give him what support it coulJ.